A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.